Chapter 294 Old grain with worms

"Ran Ran, is this the relief food sent by the government? I thought there were only twenty or thirty bags, but I didn't expect there to be so much!"

"Yeah, it looks like those people don't want to see us at all. I didn't expect they could give us so much food."

Several men sighed with emotion, but Qiao Ran didn't correct them. It was impossible for them to deal with that old guy Jia Tongpan anyway, and they didn't worry about exposing their secrets.

"Yes, these are the relief grains for us. Let's transport them back together!"

These thirty or so men came with ten carts, each cart containing several bags of grain.

Seeing that Qiao Ran had a lot of food in his car, he wanted to take a few bags and put them in other cars, but Qiao Ran refused: "It's okay, I'm strong, I can pull these bags of grain."

Seeing that she insisted on doing this, the men couldn't force it, so they divided two people to help Qiao Ran push the cart.

The mountain road was not easy to walk, and these thirty or so people pushed, pulled, and pulled along the way before finally transporting dozens of bags of food to the camp.

The old village chief was also very happy when he saw that they had brought back so much food.

"These fifty bags of grain are neither too much nor too little. Each of our families will share a share, so we can eat for a month or so. Ran Yatou said that the government will send another fifty bags of grain in half a month. Come here, plus what we bought on the road, at least we won’t have to worry about running out of food until spring. The government will send us two pigs in half a month, haha, you guys can have a good year this year !”

The old village chief laughed happily for a while, and then admonished the villagers:

"Don't worry about food. You guys have to work harder. Don't be lazy on snowy days. We have to hurry up and build our new village into a presentable one! You don't have to worry about living here. It’s actually not bad to live in a tent, it’s warmer than the mud-brick thatched house we had before!”

"What I mean is, if you can't make it in time, then don't be busy building a house first, and let's take care of next year's harvest first! At the very least, the wasteland for next year's cultivation must be reclaimed before spring. It’s time to sow seeds as soon as the weather warms up! It’s better to rely on others than to rely on yourself. You have to grow your own food at all times to feel at ease!”

Everyone thinks that this year's New Year is not sad, but also very happy.

Listening to what the old village chief said, I felt that it made sense.

Along the way, they have become accustomed to living in a large tent that can protect them from wind, rain, snow and warmth. In fact, whether they have a house to live in is not the most urgent thing for them.

The most important thing is to reclaim the wasteland as soon as possible.

Farmers have work to do, land to grow food, and hope of harvest, so they can have a bright future!

Everyone promised the old village chief that they would not be afraid of cold or hardship, and would work hard every day. Under the leadership of Qiao Ran, they would burn the miasma forest in Devil Valley as soon as possible, and then divide and plow the land on the burned wasteland. After water has been brought to the ground, the soil can be loosened and sown directly in the spring.

The old village chief asked Qiao Erhe and a few other men to distribute the food. Each family came in line to receive the food with their own linen bags.

But when everyone opened the linen bags and planned to use rice buckets to distribute the grain, they discovered something strange.

"Why do these rice noodles look like they have been stored for a long time? The color is wrong, and there are rice worms in this rice!"

"That's right! This flour doesn't look like it's freshly ground. It's full of worms! What's going on?"

"They give us old grain that has been stored for who knows how many years and even insects have grown out of it as relief food. Isn't this government bullying people too much?"

Someone shouted very angrily, and the faces of the villagers who heard the news were also full of indignation.

And then, someone on the other side exclaimed again.

"Hey! Look, everyone! This bag of food is new! There are no worms, and it looks like this year's new food."

"The same goes for the bag in front of me! The cornmeal is yellow, tender and very fresh! It doesn't look like old food!"

"That's strange! Why is there new food but also old food with worms? Is it because the new food is not enough, so the old food is used to make up for it?"

"Isn't that true? This is the capital! How can we, the hundreds of refugees, be short of relief food under the emperor's feet? I see, it's that judge Jia Tong who deliberately used old food to make us sick!"

"Bah! That son of a bitch, Fatty Jia! Don't let me see him next time! I will definitely put a sack on him when no one is prepared and loosen up that bitch's muscles and bones!"

"Hmph! That wicked son of a bitch thinks he can trouble us like this? Let alone food infested with worms, what haven't we eaten along the way? We barely dare to eat human flesh!"

"Leaves, grass roots, Guanyin soil, mice, frogs, grasshoppers, earthworms, scorpions... we haven't eaten anything before? Do you think this will disgust us? Humph! If you dare to use these grains with worms to deal with us next time, my fist will be Not vegetarian!”

Everyone was filled with indignation and cursed Jia Tongpan.

Qiao Ran didn't say anything, just kept this account silently in her heart.

She also didn't expect that Judge Jia Tong would be so despicable and shameless. Even if he was given such a small amount of relief food, he would actually bring these worm-infested rice noodles. This would make the thirty bags of rice noodles she added look even fresher. .

Qiao Ran thought that she originally planned to wait until the village here was completely built and everyone really settled down, then she would go find out who was behind Jia Tongpan's instructions, and then give both that person and the loser Jia Tongpan a lesson. .

But he didn't expect that Jia Tongpan would actually dare to mess with this meager amount of food, which really annoyed Qiao Ran.

It’s shameful to waste food! It is even more abominable to use spoiled food that is infested with worms as relief food!

This is stepping on Qiao Ran's bottom line and can't bear it!

You must sneak into the city when you have time and teach Jia Tongpan an unforgettable lesson!

We have no choice but to waste food infested with worms. Farmers have a natural cherishment of food and will never bear to waste every grain of food.

The old village chief could only ask people to distribute the old grain with worms and the new grain without worms to each family.

The Qiao family also received three buckets of rice noodles, one of which was infested with rice worms.

In fact, these black rice worms are nothing. They float on the water as soon as you put some water in them. Therefore, you can wash out these rice worms when washing rice.

However, the old rice was indeed not as delicious as the new rice. Qiao Ran coquettishly coquettished her grandma and asked her to cover herself. She replaced the bucket of rice she received with the new rice in her own space and used the old rice to feed her. Chickens and ducks in space.

By the way, there are a lot of eggs and duck eggs in the space, and the rabbits have given birth to several litters of rabbits. Let’s see when we can bring out some eggs and rabbits for the family to eat.